Pippa Murphy is an award-winning composer, sound designer, music director and producer who scores for screen, theatre, dance, choirs and orchestras. Known for her stylistic breadth, she works with writers, directors, film-makers and choreographers as well as Folk, Indie, Jazz and Classical musicians.

Pippa was classically trained on piano, violin and percussion from an early age and completed her BMus, MA and PhD in instrumental and electroacoustic composition at The University of Birmingham. She was Artist in Residence at the Scottish Parliament (2014) and Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh (2020). She composed ‘Anamchara – Songs of Friendship‘ for Scottish Opera with writer Alexander McCall Smith as part of the Commonwealth Games 2014 Glasgow. She is a regular collaborator with Karine Polwart and their album Pocket of Wind Resistance was shortlisted for BBC Folk Album of the Year 2018, and Scottish Album of the Year 2018. In 2023 Pippa & Karine received the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Awards for Artists.

THEATRE CREDITS

Macbeth (An Undoing) Royal Lyceum Theatre; Truth’s a Dog (Tim Crouch, Lyceum Edinburgh), Enough of Him (NTS, Pitlochry Theatre); Orphans (National Theatre of Scotland); Streetcar Named Desire (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation (Edinburgh International Festival, Royal Court, National Theatre Scotland & Tim Crouch); Lost at Sea (Perth Horsecross); Red Lion (Rapture Theatre); Woman in Mind (Dundee Rep); Crude (Grid Iron); View from Castle Rock (Stellar Quines/Edinburgh Book Festival); Gilt (7:84); Strangers Babies (Traverse Theatre); Standing Wave: Delia Derbyshire (Tron Theatre Glasgow)

TELEVISION, FILM & RADIO

Joseph Knight – Scenes for Survival (BBC, National Theatre Scotland), Aleister Crowley – Scenes for Survival (BBC, National Theatre Scotland), Message from the Skies (Edinburgh Hogmanay 2020, 2019, 2018); Anamchara – Songs of Friendship (Scottish Opera, Commonwealth Games 2014); POP-UP Duets (Janis Claxton Dance, National Museums of Scotland); numerous orchestral arrangements (BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra)